Design and Evaluation of SIMpliLife, an NFC Platform to Ease Day-to-Day Actions of People’s Life

摘要

In this paper the authors describe the design, prototyping and evaluation of SIMpliLife, a framework for mobile phones with the aim of making people’s life easier, providing day-to-day services such as payment, ticketing and information retrieval by means of NFC (Near Field Communication) technology. It was developed via the collaboration between two research labs of Sapienza University of Rome: the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Lab and the Usability and Accessibility Lab (LUA), both belonging to CATTID (Centre for Applications of Teleservices and of Technologies for Innovation in Digital world) research centre. Technically, SIMpliLife is a SIM-based platform for NFC mobile phones that interfaces several applications able to manage the abovementioned services. The high-level User Interface has been developed by means of Smart Card Web Server (SCWS) technology, thus providing enhanced user experience if compared to traditional SIM-based implementations based on SIM Toolkit.